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Tipoffs for Greensboro, North Carolina (Federal Agencies) Newsletter for Thursday December 05, 2024 ( 1 items )  

NIH: Science Update - Certain Feeding Practices Associated With Rapid Infant Weight Gain
ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Dec. 5 -- The National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child's Health and Human Development issued the following news: * * * Encouraging parents to avoid these practices could assist efforts to reduce childhood obesity * * * Infants who were fed formula, introduced early to other foods before 4 months of age, fed on a schedule, and/or whose parents watched television while feeding, are at risk for more rapid weight gain in the first ye  more